Monday, November 3, 2025

Ai Chats for Parts

Parts Chats for Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok; Claude . . . etc

A chat request template is required to use Ai Chats with Parts.

Use Notepad or your favorite text editor to create and save a chat template file.

Select Parts > Configuration > Ai Chat > Ai Chat File.

Example Template Text Files for Ai Chat Requests:

Copilot Search DigiKey and Mouser for Part Number and Alternate Parts. Include stock, price ranking and RoHS status. Begin the Chat with Part Number.

Gemini Search DigiKey and Mouser for Part Number and Alternate Parts. Include stock, price ranking and RoHS status. Display the data with URL links in a fitted table.

Perplexity Search DigiKey and Mouser for Part Number and Alternate Parts. Include stock, price ranking and RoHS status. Begin the Chat with Part Number.

Claude Search DigiKey and Mouser for Part Number and Alternate Parts. Include stock, price ranking and RoHS status. Please begin the Conversation Name with Part Number.

Grok Search DigiKey and Mouser for Part Number and Alternate Parts. Include stock, price ranking and RoHS status. Begin the Chat with Part Number.

To start a Chat Select Part Number or Description in Parts then Click on | Ai Chat |

Click on | Ai Chat | then paste (CTRL+V) the request in the Chat and select enter.

Tips:

Selecting Description may be your best choice for finding Alternate Parts.

The Chat template file must contain the keyword Part Number

Part Number is replaced with the selected Part Number or Description. 

See example Chat text files in the Parts Download.

Contact Parts if have any questions about using chat's with Parts.

That's It !

Friday, October 10, 2025

App Notes and Datasheets - Grounding Problems

Rick Hartley: Quotes

"I start all my classes with a comment I heard Lee Ritchey make 27 or 28 years ago, that app notes produced by IC manufacturers should be assumed wrong until proven right."

And . . .

Hartley: "Besides grounding problems, and we both know there are a million grounding problems in app notes, most of them have that wrong."

https://www.magazines007.com/pdf/Design007-June2020.pdf

How PCB designers can use IPC specifications for DFM - Siemons Valor

 

How PCB designers can use IPC specifications for DFM


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